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authorVladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>2019-12-27 15:02:28 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-12-30 20:31:40 -0800
commit544fed47af4d2174ac0b550e9c8da15c2dfdb117 (patch)
tree5a8edec5ce8eeb87738109c4bca5fa833dfba124 /drivers
parentsfc: avoid duplicate error handling code in 'efx_ef10_sriov_set_vf_mac()' (diff)
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ptp: introduce ptp_cancel_worker_sync
In order to effectively use the PTP kernel thread for tasks such as timestamping packets, allow the user control over stopping it, which is needed e.g. when the timestamping queues must be drained. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
index e60eab7f8a61..4f0d91a76dcb 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
@@ -371,6 +371,12 @@ int ptp_schedule_worker(struct ptp_clock *ptp, unsigned long delay)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptp_schedule_worker);
+void ptp_cancel_worker_sync(struct ptp_clock *ptp)
+{
+ kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync(&ptp->aux_work);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptp_cancel_worker_sync);
+
/* module operations */
static void __exit ptp_exit(void)